Well, this book, which contends that the Noah's Ark/Flood Mythologies of the world are based on a real flooding of the Black Sea, dispersing a sizable number of immigrants, is pretty nice. There's no doubt left that the Black Sea was once a freshwater lake some 300 feet below sea level, and was then inundated with a direct connection to the rest of the world's oceans. No doubt about that at all.
I'm reading this book, How Israel Was Won, and I'm getting this very odd feeling that it's biased against the Israeli's. By way of word choice and the exclusion or inclusion of certain information that's either damaging to Israel or the Palestinians, it just seems like it's slanting the board. I finally read one paragraph that's so completely missing an obvious half of the story that I check out reviews and lo and behold, the critics agree that it's a piece of propaganda with an unbalanced vi
Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. -- Martin Amis, _Money_